Heh, then it's the old corporate actions for short term profits over long term negative effects....

To be fair, that sort of thing doesn't make a forum necessarily successful, though.
(i've seen sites that have multiple threads on the same topics that are very busy and fun to use as well, for example)

Not saying SOME threads shouldn't be closed, btw....just that there doesn't need to be one thread for everything.
(like this was autism: the forum)

I agree having multiple copies of the same thread is annoying. But often people are going to be too lazy if they don't see the problem at the top 15 spots on the main page, they will assume it doesn't exist and make a new one. I do try to find relevant (even old/necro threads) that are relevant before making a new one if i can help it. This assumes keywords somewhere are the same to find them in the first place.

Head's up: some staff seem to dislike threads being necrod, and if your necro post isn't "good" enough, they will sometimes lock the thread.

(iirc some even suggested making new threads instead of necroing old ones in some cases)

Well the forums need a lot of things....better search being one of them.
(or just dumping it entirely and making a new one...instead of McGyvering this one over and over)

Sure but there's a difference between starting a new thread when you could have searched for one a month old, versus starting a new thread on an issue with multiple threads already going on page one. I get that the sudden interest in curbing that is perhaps suspect given the current issues, though. Active moderators are also a pretty new thing here too though.

Honestly I think one huge Devotion thread would be more impressive and impactful than a bunch of ones with 20 posts in them anyway.

I also think the posts should be compacted into maybe a few threads...maybe not just one, though, so that the various sub issues don't get mixed up.

(Maybe 3 or 4, like with prior issues in the past, would be ideal)

I don't know it just seems so illogical to me, that if GOG is half the baddie that some are saying, that they tolerate so many crap threads here in the forum ... honestly.

They are accused of closing some threads and shutting down discussions on Twitter and Facebook etc, yet when I come here every day I see oodles of posts attacking them. I'm not saying those things aren't happening, but I am saying that the reasons are misunderstood for GOG's action on them and inaction on others.

It seems to me, that if you are reasonable in your approach, they let you have your say here in the forums ... let you get it out of your system.

Whereas on Twitter and Facebook etc, they are concerned for the many there who just don't want to see such things. Fair enough I say. Most customers don't appear in the forum or rarely, and it ain't hard to understand why a lot of the time.

Why should GOG allow their more common venues to become cesspits. Totally reasonable to limit it to here. Try doing the same with Steam or many other places, and you won't find them anywhere near as tolerant as GOG.

the office floor mentality is what it is. group forming, scheming, harassing.. presenting the i love gog mentality to anyone who's new .... still the forum in its self runs pretty much quite all right

take for example the, what seems to be the individual gogg'rs take on devotion, its like watching your teenage daughter suddenly grow a weary sense of danger concerning the greenhouse problem having to see her go in hunger strike in home and enter all kinds of questionable groupings online to preserve the world for her unborn children

in the end of course it is only a phase, and maybe an important one at that if the final solution means that the whole family learned and maybe became a bit more aware of their own greenhouse implant, if only for a month or 2

and with that said, my gog support experience is about as exemplary as it can get when rating support qualities..

so go GOG ( and please, keep that geralt chap banned )